3 Best Article Scraping Software Tools

We always need to keep track of the latest breaking news and stay abreast of new developments around the world in the era of information explosion. It's extremely important for businessmen to keep up with latest activities and news in order to get the most out of the information, and to gain insight from the information that thus will help them make the right business decisions in today’s business world. Thanks to RSS (Really Simple Syndication) and other technologies, we can easily stay informed the latest content from the websites we are interested when using the web.

Since we are bombarded with news mainly from the internet and cellphones and if we want to scrape and dissect these online articles and publications we are exposed to for some good purposes such as gaining new ideas/thoughts for content production, it’s better to save the articles in our own machine using some article scraping tools. It's worth mentioning that you must follow the terms of use of the websites you want to scrape articles or publications from and avoid running into a lawsuit with copyright.

This article will introduce you some of the most commonly used article scraping software tools that can help you collect the content of the articles you are interested in.

1. Octoparse

An article scraping tool that could mimic human’s browsing behavior would be better for users to grab and save the articles from popular article websites/web directories without getting into trouble. Octoparse enables you to scrape the articles and posts in an appropriate frequency by setting the execution timeout. Its users-friendly UI and point-and-click operations make it easy for you (especially for non-programmers) to get used to this software and its powerful features enable you to deal with websites that required login, dynamic websites, keyword search results, websites with scrolling and etc. You will get familiar with this article scraping software by following the getting started tutorials.

As a Windows-based freeware, you can just download the software and directly download the ready-to-use Octoparse scraping tasks. Visit their tutorials and see if you can find something interesting. Plus, Octoparse provide cloud services for users to get the changing data in real time. That is, you can get the up-to-date articles or publications at any time, with proxies feature and API feature.

The Octoparse team delivers great customer support and is dedicated to make your business successful. You can visit the home page and get the most out of them.

2. WebHarvy

As an another Windows-base article scraping software, it can be used to scrape article directories and press releases from PR websites. After download the software you can easily follow the tutorial to create a task to scrape the details like the title and body of an article, author name, published date, keywords etc.

It’s highly recommend that you download and try their evaluation version and also view the video demonstrations to start your journey in WebHarvy.

3. ScrapeBox - Article Scraper Addon

As one of the most popular SEO tools, its Article Scraper addon is feasible and allows you to scraping many articles from lots of popular article directories.

The proxy feature and multi-threading feature can help you collect the articles within minutes. In addition, you can scrape articles in different languages, categorize all the articles and save these articles in ANSI, UTF-8 or Unicode format. What's more, their developers offer an advanced Article Scraper Plugin to post articles, spin articles and much more.

The article scraping software tools above are powerful enough and you would learn how to collect plenty of articles from articles websites/web directories with a little bit of effort.